Of course he knew all along.
He's just a teeny weenie narcissist.

Even for such a lying liar like Trump that line sounded especially disingenuous. What I wondered when I heard it the first time this morning was if other people who have left the administration heard the same shit lines. I hope that they have similar experience of getting these calls post firing and that it pisses them off.

the first time I heard it...as if someone had previously used the word LOVE....makes no sense in the context we got it. Maybe Lawrence will do it tonite....he was the first one to pick up on RUSSHER...

With 'love' in there? He a talker, and I never heard that one. Maybe overdoing it to make it seem like he was disappointed, when he actually knew about it. Who knows.

But his voters think that's ok with them.

having her out of the White House. He was lying to Omarosa, of course, denying what had been said, but stupidly echoing the wording revealing his guilt when he denied it.

Think of it as similar to someone denying something they'd been accused of in general terms, and in their denial including some specific detail that in fact showed they had done it.

Omarosa saying something like "oh, you know you loved firing me, you love that I'm gone!"

to know why she was "leaving."

because i know youre as ruthlessly opportunistic as i am, and i'm afraid you might talk shit about me.

Psychosis is characterized by an impaired relationship with reality.

As others have indicated, he is lying of course he knew

Sounds like his run away mouth got ahead of his distracted mind.

that there was celebrating and bloviating going on in his office with whomever was with him. I think someone likely said that they love that she is now gone. He sucked up the accolades and that’s the remark that stuck in his head and out it came in his conversation with her.

Always has been, always will be.